Dialogue on Teaching, hosted by Nancy Lynne Westfield, PhD, is the podcast of The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion. Amplifying the Wabash Center’s mission, the podcast focuses upon issues of teaching and learning in theology and religion within colleges, universities and seminaries. The podcast series features dialogues with faculty teaching in a wide range of institutional contexts. The conversations will illumine the teaching life.
Host: Nancy Lynne Westfield, PhD
Producer: Rachel Mills
Sound Engineer: Paul O. Myhre, PhD & Paul Utterback
Podcast music by Dr. Paul O. Myhre, PhD
Rev. Dr. Jennifer Harvey is Vice President of Academic Affairs and Academic Dean and Professor of Christian Ethics at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
In an aching world, what does it take to …
Rev. Dr. Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi is Assistant Professor of Leadership and Formation
Director of the Office of Professional Formation at Iliff School of Theology.
Education is a formational endeavor. Exp…
Dr. Alton B. Pollard, III is President Emeritus of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
Now in retirement, President Pollard shares his reflections, considerations, musings and convictions on…
Rev. Dr. Kenyatta Gilbert is Dean of Howard School of Divinity.
Shifting from being a longtime faculty member to the role and responsibility of dean can be gratifying and terrifying. Hear the story o…
Samantha Miller, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Theology at Whitworth University.
How do you give permission to adult learners to drop their intellectual guard and engage openly in the complex thinkin…
Rev. Dr. Kenyatta Gilbert is Dean of Howard School of Divinity.
Dr. Gilbert discusses the dream of being an architect, the surprise of being able to create space for oneself, the joy of lightbulb mom…
Grace Kao is Professor of Ethics and the Sano Chair of Pacific & Asian American Theology at Claremont School of Theology and Joy McDougall is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Emory's Can…
Donald Quist is Assistant of English at the University of Missouri.
Donald Quist discusses the developmental editing approach that helped create Glimpses of Me and Mine by Nancy Lynne Westfield. Thei…
The Rev. Dr. Boyung Lee is Professor of Practical Theology at Iliff School of Theology.
In this Silhouette Interview, Lee covers reflection over the impetus of her teaching, being mindful when what's…
Yohana A. Junker, PhD is Assistant Professor of Art, Religion, and Culture and Associate Dean for Strategic Planning at Claremont School of Theology.
Employing arts-based pedagogies allows students' …
The Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey is Vice Presidents for Academic and Student affairs and Associate Professor of Constructive Theology at Meadville Lombard Theological School.
Dr. Lightsey discusses the c…
Donald Quist is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Missouri.
Improved writing means improved teaching - and vice versa. The Wabash Center's initiative on creative writing su…
Rev. Dr. Steed Davidson, Executive Director of the Society for Biblical literature.
What kind of professional development, formation, and imagination is needed for career longevity as a scholar of rel…
Dr. Eric D. Barreto is the Frederick and Margaret L. Weyerhaeuser Associate Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. In this Silhouette Interview he discusses the childhood desir…
Through arts based research methodology, the documentary Seeing the Future of the African American Church in the Rainbow: A Year in the Life of Real Inspirations Ministry was created.
The documentary …
The Rev. Dr. Daisy Machado is Emerita Faculty in Church History at Union Theological Seminary in New York and the Director of the Hispanic Summer Program. In this Silhouette Interview, she discusses …
Gregory Cuéllar, PhD is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Austen Presbyterian Theological Seminary. In this Silhouette Interview, Cuellar discusses the childhood dream of flying helicopters in …
Marcia Y. Riggs, PhD is the J. Erskine Love Professor of Christian Ethics and Ombudsperson at Columbia Theological Seminary. In this Silhouette Podcast Interview, Riggs discusses wanting to be an art…
Dwight M. Hopkins, PhD is the Alexander Campbell Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School. In this interview, Hopkins discusses his desire to be a writer as early as kindergarten, the f…